Top Five All-Time Greatest Debut Albums

[ggw]

Joe Jackson -- Look Sharp
 The Clash -- The Clash
 Tragically Hip -- Up To Here
 Led Zeppelin -- I
 Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I really don't know anything about Tragically Hip, but allmusic says "Up to Here" is there second album/

[xcanuck]

I'll play along. And since ggw chose Up To Here, I'll assume we can discount any EPs etc that came before the main debut CD/album.
 
 
 1. Ten - Pearl Jam
 2. Smeared - Sloan
 3. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
 4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
 5. Love Junk - The Pursuit of Happiness
 
 I'm sure that there are more "worthy" CDs (like The Clash, Dylan, Ramones, The Who, etc) but these 5 CDs have all changed my life in some substantial way. Not bad for a band's first effort.

[xcanuck]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I really don't know anything about Tragically Hip, but allmusic says "Up to Here" is there second album/

Yeah - they had a self-titled EP that came out in '87.

[ggw]

EPs don't count.  Only LPs.
 
 Thus, you could select Murmur, but would have to forgo the more worthy Chronic Town.
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I really don't know anything about Tragically Hip, but allmusic says "Up to Here" is there second album/

[bearman🐻]

1) The Ramones -- The Ramones (cliche, but imagine hearing that for the first time when the musical climate was what it was in 1976...it must have seemed like God's band coming to save rock'n'roll)
 2) Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures
 3) The Clash -- The Clash
 4) Descendents -- Milo Goes to College
 5) The Stone Roses -- The Stone Roses

[dotdot]

1.  The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
 2.  Ramones - Ramones
 3.  Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
 4.  The Smiths - The Smiths (production sucks, though)
 5.  The Strokes - Is This It
 
 No making fun, I'm NOT a hipster... as for The Strokes, I know I'll get a lot of shit for including it, but I like them an awful lot.  
 
 6.  The Band - Music From Big Pink
 7.  Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
 
 Two records that are better than The Strokes, but perhaps it's a sentimental thing...  I'll probably regret posting this because I'll change my mind and forget something... I'm also wasted right now... (I know it's the afternoon but I don't work for 2 days and I'm going to see Wilco in a few hours [and I'm not driving])...

[godsshoeshine]

pavement--slanted & enchanted
 the clash--s/t
 fugazi--repeater
 galactic heroes--how about san francisco?
 weezer--blue

[sonickteam2]

Rage Against The Machine - s/t
   Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
   Counting Crows - August And Everything After
   Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
   Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bullocks (does the ONLY album count?)

[sparky]

zeppelin-zeppelin
 g n' r - appetite
 weezer - weezer
 sex pistols - bollocks (hell yes it counts)
 coldplay - parachutes

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Another thread where everyone has way overlapping tastes. Yawn.

[suede]

suede - suede
 stone roses - stone roses
 pavement - slanted & enchanted
 REM - Murmur
 
 dunno #5, but i will point out that repeater though technically fugazi's first LP, was preceded by both fugazi and margin walker both long playing EPs (ie 6+ songs each). but a quibble i suppose.

[SalParadise]

jane's addiction - 'nothing's shocking'
 pixies - 'surfer rosa'
 wu-tang clan - 'enter the 36 chambers'
 jeff buckley - 'grace'
 bob marley & the wailers - 'catch a fire'

[irishcat]

1. TELEVISION - MARQUEE MOON
 2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
 3. Verve - A Storm in Heaven
 4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
 5. The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace of Sin

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by sparky:
  zeppelin-zeppelin
 g n' r - appetite
 weezer - weezer
 sex pistols - bollocks (hell yes it counts)
 coldplay - parachutes

yeah, Apetite for Destruction is definitely a Top 5.